Loom for weaving wire



(No Model.)

' G. P. WIGKWIRE.

' 4 LOOM FOR WEAVING WIRE. r v No. 282.430. Patented July 31, 1888.

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flweiziwf UNITED STATES PATENT ()F-FICE.

CHESTER F. \VIGKVIRE, OF CORTLAND, NEW YORK.

LOOM-FOR WEAVING WIRE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 282,430, dated July 31, 1883.

Application filed. March 7, 1882. (N model.)

To all whomitfmay concern.-

Be it known that I, CHESTER F; WIcKwIRE, a citizen of the United States of America, re siding at Cortland, in the county of Cortland and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Looms for Weaving Wire and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable; others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make. and

- warp-wires and consequent irregularity in the ,f form and size of the mesh in the cloth, due to the changes in the position of the wires as they unwind from the warp-drum, that knots, kinks,

or irregularities in the wires have caught be tween the dents, and mischief and delay ensued. y

The object of this invention is to give to each warp-wire'a perfect and arbitrary bearing upon the dents of the reed, and thus not only incloth-b eam.

sure that the warps shall retain their relative equal distance from each other, but atthe same time provide a means whereby the knots, kinks, and the like will be permitted to pass freely through the reed, the dents of which willtend to straighten out such kinks, &c. without obstructing the feed of the warp or the movement of the reed.

The invention consists, essentially, in a reed secured in the lay of the looin, in any suitable manner, at rightangles to the direction of the warp and parallel with the warp-drum and The reed is formed with dents made of flat strips or pieces of metal, which are arranged diagonally in the reed-bars, with the front edge of one dent approximately opposite the rear edge of the adjacent dent upon the plane of the warp, in such manner that a edges, and that the front edge of one dent will bear against one side of one warp-wire and its rear edge against the opposite side of the next adjacent warp-wire.

The devices for causing the vibration of the lay, forming no part of this invention, are not shown, it beingnnderstood that any approved and suitable means may be used.

The invention is fully illustrated in the ac companying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of a loom with my improved reed inposition; Fig; 2, an enlarged detail view of the reed and lower part of the lay dis placed and Fig. 3, a sectional detail view,

showing the position of a warp-wire in passing between two dents.

Referring to the drawings, A representsthe loom-frame; B, the warp-drum; b, the warpwires, and C the cloth-roll.

D represents the reed," having dents d arranged obliquely or diagonally to the plane of the warp-feed in such a manner that the warpwires b will at all times bear upon the opposite edges of adjacent dents thereof; and the weft is represented by c. The lay and reed are placed transversely in the loom, at right angles to the direction of. the warp and parallel with the warp-drum B and cloth-beam G, and the dents are arranged obliquely, as shown,

so as to nearly cover all the space in the reed The invention being essentially confined to v the reed, only such parts of the loom as will illustrate its relation and position are shown.

WhatI claim as new is 1. (A cloth-beam supported at ri angles to the direction of the warp-thread gtgqscombination with a lay and supports for he me, as described, whereby the said lay is held parallel with the cloth-beam, and a reed provided with oblique dents, as set forth, whereby a bearing is secured at the front of said reed for one side of a warp-thread, and a bearing at the rear of the reed for the opposite side of the warp thread, as and for the purposes set forth.

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\ 2. A cloth-beam supported at right angles to the direction of the warp-threads, in combination with a lay and supports for the same,-

as set forth, whereby the same is held paral- 5 lel with. the cloth-beam, and a reed composed of flat metal strips set obliquely to said lay,

as and for the purposes set forth.

3. The combination of a lay and supports for the same with a reed having dents composed 10 of flat metal strips, which are set obliquely in said lay, with the front edge of one dent adapt- 1 CHESTER 1i WIOKWIRE.-

WVitnesses:

OYRUs D. SMITH, WILLIAM PoLLEY. 

